sample space

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. the collection of all possible results of an experiment, represented as points.

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sample space British  

noun

1. statistics the set of possible outcomes of an experiment; the range of values of a random variable

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Etymology

Origin of sample space

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

For example, the sample space for rolling a dice is the set 1,2,3,4,5,6.This notation is referred to as roster notation.

From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020

The total of all probabilities displayed must be 1, representing 100 percent of the sample space.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

Because this is a conditional probability, we restrict the sample space to consider only those outcomes that have a blue marble in the first draw.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

There are four main ways to represent a sample space:

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

We see that probabilities are nothing more than counting the events in each group we are interested in and dividing by the number of elements in the universe, or sample space.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017